IS IT HARD FOR PEOPLE WITH AS TO WATCH TV?

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For me, it is two things. The pace of information is too slow, but if I don't pay attention, I miss a link. The too-frequent scene changes in the commercial sections and introductions are hard on the nerves.

Also, I heartily recommend Jerry Mander's "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television." A viewer is in a semi-hypnotic trance, extremely vulnerable to propaganda. "Seeing is believing" but when the world view is skilfully edited, it can be made to look like anything.

Sometimes I can't remember characters in movies or series.
I hate when someone watches TV and he allways change channels with TV remote.
I don't like TV turned on when I visit my parents. They sometimes watch TV, ignore me and I could stay at home.
I don't like TV commercials.
I don't have TV.

I grew up without TV, so I can't say for sure, but I rarely sit through movies. I just don't have the patience. The only movies I can remember sitting through are Interstellar and Arrival. Come to think of it, I can't even watch Youtube for longer than a half hour or so without getting antsy. Books and podcasts are another matter entirely, so I might just be averse to the medium itself. I am extremely visually sensitive.

I find tv is a little bit overstimulating at times.
I am alright for a while if I sit and watch a dvd of my favorite shows for a while, but when I go to my parent's house and they have the tv on every evening when they are home, the brightness, the jumpy adverts, the sound gets too much after a while.
Also I find I have to be watching something I am interested in, otherwise I will get distracted and want to do something else.

My horrible ex used to get new release films, just for the sake of them being new release and wanting to watch them to look up to date, but I was not interested in watching them, so I would get distracted and want to do something else.
Yet, I could sit and watch 1931 Dracula and be fully engaged. He would make fun.
Movies and tv shows are an artform, I don't understand why people watch them just as something "in the background".